Since antiquity Sparta has been seen as the source of inspiration for Plato's political projects which he described in his major dialogues, the Republic and the Laws. Nevertheless an attentive reading of the dialogues shows a more complex picture, which expresses Plato's more equivocal, perhaps even [...]

Publication of the theoretical part of the work of August Boeckh, entitled Encyclopedia and Methodology of the Philological Sciences, fills a gap in philological studies in France. This work, published posthumously in 1877 (Teubner, Leipzig) by one of the disciplies of Boeckh, E. Bratuschek, has [...]

englischThe studies collected in this volume were published over the course of some thirty years and constitute an important milestone in recent research on ancient thought. They reflect the renewed interest in Hellenistic philosophies which emerged in the 1980s. Through a rigorous application of [...]

The title of this volume alludes to Phaedrus 255d, where Socrates says that the lover is, as it were, the mirror in which the beloved beholds himself. Mirrors provide a chance to overcome some of the natural limitations of vision - and in particular they enable us to see that which otherwise would [...]

englischThe essays collected here consider the history of the interpretations and uses of Platonic philosophy from the perspective of the interdependence between exegesis and the definition of the corpus. The aim is not to retrace the history of Platonism, nor of the Platonic corpus, but to study [...]

englischIs Parmenides really the speculative philosopher he has come to be presented as in western philosophical tradition? If we leave aside the 'philosophical' assumptions that underlie modern interpretations and read his poem as what the author himself tells us it is - a divine revelation, [...]

Kurt Gödels berühmter, hier wieder abgedruckter Aufsatz »Über formal unentscheidbare Sätze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme« von 1931 und Wittgensteins Reaktionen darauf in den Bemerkungen über die Grundlagen der Mathematik werden bis heute unter Mathematikern, Logikern und [...]

Dieser Band bietet einerseits eine Einführung in die Zielsetzungen sowie inhaltlichen und methodischen Grundlagen der Angewandten Ethik und anderseits einen Überblick über deren Aufgaben und Teilgebiete.Die Angewandte Ethik hat sich in den letzten dreißig Jahren zu einem selbständigen akademischen [...]

This volume comprises a selection of the articles delivered at the Ninth Symposium Platonicum of the International Plato Society, held in Tokyo. The articles cover a variety of chief issues raised in Plato's Politeia (Republic), including philology, ethics, political philosophy, psychology, [...]

This anthology contains twelve papers on various aspects of Platonism, ranging from Plato's Republic to the Neoplatonism of Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus and Hermias, to the use of Platonic philosophy by Cudworth and Schleiermacher. The papers cover topics in ethics, psychology, religion, poetics, [...]